Seth Godin Quotes
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Instead of working so hard to prove the skeptics wrong, it makes a lot more sense to delight the true believers.
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Gratitude and opportunity create more of the same.
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So by giving people a tool that they can share and benefit from, it's a form of media that isn't controlled by Rupert Murdoch or the guys at Viacom. It is a form of media that is earned every single time it spreads.
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Before you promise to change the world, it makes sense to do the hard work of changing your neighborhood.
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Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want
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Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.
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The rest of the world isn't nearly as important as the few who are here.
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Solving problems—actually solving them, not just claiming you do—solving perceived, urgent problems, is a surefire way to get the world to beat a path to your door.
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I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.
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Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.
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A customer is never out of warranty, even if his product is.
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School is at its best when it gives students the expectation that they will not only dream big, but dream dreams that they can work on every day until they accomplish them-not because they were chosen by a black-box process, but because they worked hard enough to reach them.
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The job is not the work.
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Make something happen today, before you go home, before the end of the week. Launch that idea, post that post, run that ad, call that customer. Go the edge, that edge you've been holding back from... and do it today. Without waiting for the committee or your boss or the market. Just go.
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The essence of marketing today is to tell a story to people who want to hear it, in a way that resonates with them so they are likely to either respond or connect to you, or tell their friends.
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One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you're in the room... Another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you're not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.
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People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.
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We are leaving the industrial economy and entering the connection economy.
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You want it to be hard. If it's hard, then that means others can't do it easily and you can charge for that value.
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Shame must be accepted to be effective.
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When you can swim, who cares how deep the water is?
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The Cul-de-Sac ( French for "dead end" ) ... is a situation where you work and work and work and nothing much changes
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Make a decision. It doesn't have to be a wise decision or a perfect one. Just make one.
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You have to pay the price to be in the right place at the right time often enough that people tend to see you as the regular kind.